I installed it from VL repositories and it runs fine but I have no idea what to do with it....apparently I have to buy an English dictionary for it to work as a normal dictionary. However, it does give me wikipedia.

Currently I have the following installed on a regular VL7.0 (IE, without testing):goldendict 1.0.1-i586-2vl70hunspell 1.3.2-i586-1vl70

goldendict does not work. However, it did work when I had the hunspell downgraded to 1.2.14-i586-1vl70.

From your post sledgehammer, you state that you have version 1.0.1-i586-2vl70 installed, which I'm assuming is the regular version of goldendict, since it corresponds to my version (and it corresponds to the version which stretchedthin first posted about). Since your version of goldendict works and mine doesn't, I wonder which version of hunspell you have installed on your machine.

From a search I found this site, though I didn't really have any luck with it. I struggled for quite some time with gcide, and finally got it working. Gcide is a very extensive 1913 Webster dictionary, which I quite like (it also comes with some modern stuff from WordNet). I tried for hours the other day to get goldendict to recognize the file and failed. Today, I tried once again, and it worked. It's a mystery to me why it decided to work today, however. But, I now can confirm that the program can read dictionary files. It has worked with the Internet sites it has listed as well (as long as they're activated via Edit/Dictionaries/Websites), though I prefer to just use the gcide file.

Is there a place to report Vector package bugs? Or is this forum the place? I ask because I feel that it's a bit of a bug that goldendict only works with a downgraded version of hunspell rather than the current version that comes with VL7.0.

I did some testing, and discovered that the gcide link I gave doesn't work. So, sorry about that. However, the following link does work, and is the one I'm using. So, download the following source package: dict-gcide_0.48.1.tar.gz, then unpack it and have goldendict point to that. It should work.

I'm not sure where you could purchase a dictionary for it. But basically you just save it and install it (configure, make, make install).

Specifically, download the dict-gcide_0.48.1.tar.gz file, open and save it in your user's home file with the program Xarchiver, then with your terminal go into the created directory (which will be "dict-gcide-0.48.1") and run the following three commands:

root:# make installThe first two commands can be run as normal user, while the last command ("make install") is run as root. Then, open goldendict, press F3 (or select Edit, Dictionaries), press Add, enter the location of where you saved the directory dict-gcide-0.48.1, check the Recursive box, press Rescan Now, then Okay. At this point, it should work.